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Originally Posted by Rogue Leader
Suicide has quickly become "socially acceptable", which is pretty sad in and of itself. I don't know why or how but maybe its the sheltering parents give kids, or how everyones a "winner" in Kindergarten sports. Also theres way more ways for it to happen. As little as 5 years ago kids left school and the bully was gone, at least for a night. Now everyone has facebook, myspace, etc and the trashing continues at home.
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I just got curious when I read this and I googled suicide rates by year. Apparently this is tracked by the CDC. The results really surprised me. Suicide is actually way down overall over 20 years ago, but that was up tremendously from 20 years before that. And I expected it to be teens but 20-24 year olds were far more likely than teens. I have no point with this other than to say I'm truly truly surprised. I would never have thought that the rates were lower than 20 years ago.
edit: I wanted to add that I in no way want to diminish anything by putting it into numbers. Like I said, I was just curious and surprised.
edit 2, I also wanted to add this:
65 years and over 30.0 24.5 20.8 17.6 20.5 17.9 15.2 15.3 15.6 14.6
Those numbers correspond to the years above. So the overall suicide rate has been pretty constant, but it used to be the elderly committing suicide and those numbers have dropped in half in 40 years.